Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordained minister of the United Lutheran Church, the Rev. Sittler is now professor of theology at the University of Chicago. Previously, he held a professorship at the Chicago Lutheran Seminary and served for 13 years as a pastor in Cleveland, Ohio...
Shock Avoided. On Sunday morning Eisenhower was up early, drove 25 miles to attend service at the United Presbyterian Church at Gettysburg. After the one-hour-25-minute service he tol.d the pastor (Robert A. MacAskill): "I offered to bring Mr. Khrushchev to church, but he declined. He said it would be a shock to his people...
...finally abandoned in the 17th century. Last week its revival was a major topic in Lutheran Germany. The occasion was this year's Kirchentag in Munich (TIME, Aug. 24), where no fewer than 2,000 Protestants went to confession in the two churches designated for the purpose. Says Pastor Hans Jacob of Bensheim, who heard many of them: "For 90% of them, confession was a new experience, and all of them felt it opened...
Ministers feel that the new popularity of confession is a response to the anxieties of the modern world, and a symptom of the growing Protestant shift from services and sermons to personal pastoral care. "We do not emphasize the form," says one pastor. "It must not become a routine." Many ministers hear confessions in their offices, others in the sacristy of the church. Often, pastor and penitent kneel side by side, their eyes on the cross...
...confession represents a risky rise in clerical power that is incompatible with Protestant principles, minimize it as a flash in the pan that flares in the fervor of a Kirchentag and subsides in the cooler air of everyday life. Yet a growing number of clergymen, like Munich's Pastor Adolf Sommerauer, see a strong and rising tide. "There are those who worry that confession could become a sort of fad. There is no need to propagate it. Now that it is known throughout the church that it is available, those who need it can make...